March 19th 2025: The director of the early learning centre I am pulled me aside at the end of our day for a conversation. She began telling me how she was popping by the classroom and looking in on me to see how today was going and wanted to give me some feedback. We talked about how these children handle their emotions and how they are shown within each child. She told me she was happy to see how I helped each child work through the emotion when needed to help them regulate. We talked about different techniques I used with the children, as well as brainstormed some more to try out.
This section is where students demonstrate their acquired and growing skills, their ability to put theoretical/in class learning and discussion into practice and where they will demonstrate their professional skills as early childhood educators, colleagues, and contributing members of effective early years teams.
Headings Students will use the following headings to reflect and organize the learning they are demonstrating.
- Professional skills: Reliability, punctuality, communication skills, problem solving, contributions to team, initiative, reflective practice and ability to listen to and adapt practice based on constructive feedback, etc.
- Practical Skills: Responsive/Relational Care of young children, roles, duties, tasks etc.